Vicarious #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeVicarious #5 is the concluding chapter of Ryan Parrott's first creator-owned original comic series — a milestone for a writer who had previously worked exclusively on licensed and work-for-hire properties throughout his career. As the finale of a tightly constructed five-issue limited series, it brings to a close a near-future neo-noir narrative about identity, class exploitation, and the commodification of human experience, themes that place it squarely in conversation with contemporary science fiction's most pressing cultural anxieties. The series as a whole represents BOOM! Studios' continued investment in prestige original sci-fi storytelling, and this issue caps a complete, self-contained story that was designed for the trade paperback format from the outset — a model increasingly central to how the direct market sustains original IP.
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Vicarious was announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 as a five-issue limited series, with Parrott describing the core concept as something that had been developing in his mind long before he pitched it to BOOM! Studios. Parrott and artist Eleonora Carlini had previously collaborated extensively at BOOM! on the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers line, making Vicarious a reunion of an established creative partnership now working on their own IP. Carlini, an Italian artist who debuted in the U.S. in 2015, brought a visual philosophy to the series that she described as pushing aesthetics toward 'grotesque and linear graphic codes' intended to convey the sensation of inhabiting another person's experience — a deliberate formal choice in service of the story's central conceit.
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- Vicarious #5 (of 5) arrived in comic shops on February 26, 2025, as the series finale of the five-issue limited run.
- The issue carries Previews order code DEC240111 for Cover A (by Dan Panosian) and DEC240112 for Cover B (by Luana Vecchio), with additional 1:10 and 1:15 virgin incentive variants also offered for this final issue.
- Written by Ryan Parrott and illustrated by Eleonora Carlini — the same creative team behind BOOM!'s Go Go Power Rangers — Vicarious marks Parrott's debut as the writer of a fully creator-owned original comic series.
- The series centers on protagonist Justin Bright, a directionless young man who enters the underground world of 'Proxies' — people who undergo an experimental neural implant allowing wealthy clients to vicariously experience their sensations and emotions in real time.
- Parrott and Carlini are both credited as co-creators of the series, giving them shared ownership of the property rather than a work-for-hire arrangement.
- The series was positioned editorially within BOOM!'s flagship imprint alongside other creator-owned originals such as Something is Killing the Children, BRZRKR, and Animal Pound.
- A trade paperback collecting all five issues (ISBN 979-8892153850, 144 pages) was published by BOOM! Studios on August 26, 2025, through Penguin Random House distribution.
- Eleonora Carlini co-created the first non-binary character in the Teen Titans line, Kid Quick, for DC Comics in 2021 — a notable part of the creative pedigree she brought to this series.
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